Pattern for boots and shoes



Patented Nov. 8,1,881.

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W B WHITE PATTERN FOR BOOTS AND $HOES.

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WILLIAM B. WHITE, OF comer, MAssAcEIUsErrs.

PATTERNFOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,280, dated November 8, 1881.

Application filed July 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. WHITE, of Quincy, Norfolk county, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Patterns for Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes the leather or other material of which the uppers and lining are composed is cut from the side or piece by a hand-operated knife in accordance with the shapes of patterns laid thereon, the patterns being placed in position by hand to economize or lessen to the minimum the waste of stock. 1

These patterns,as now commonly made, are composed of paper-board having its edges bound with brass, to serve as a guard guiding surface for the knife, and also protect the edge of thepattern and preserve its shape. The strips of brass employed for binding are cut from thin sheet-brass made as soft and duetile as possible. Such brass is, however, quite expensive, and is liable to crack at its edges.

To increase the durability of this class of patterns I have by experiment succeeded in binding them with steel of a low grade, and at the same time I have been enabled to the cost of the bound patterns.

In accordance-with my invention, 1 have a round wire of low-grade steel of suitable temper-n0t too.hardand roll it between rollers, which flatten the wire and form it into a narrow thin stripwith smooth round edges, which, when the flat strip is bent, will not crack and break, as will the edges of a strip formed by cutting from asheet of metal in the usual way. This flat strip is then drawn between dies to form it into trough or U shape, bent and ready to be applied to the edge of the pasteboard or other pattern to be bound, when it is compressed or closed together firmly upon and made to cling to the edge of the pattern as a permanent binding.

cheapen Figure 1 represents a shoe-pattern havinga steel binding. Fig. 2 represents a piece of round wire, such as that from which the binding is made; Fig. 3, the flattened strip and a cross-section thereof made from the wire by rolling it; and Fig. 4 a piece of gutter or U- shaped binding made from the flat strip, and a section thereof.

The round wire a is rolled and flattened between suitable rollers or dies, making a flat strip,b, with smooth rounded unbroken edges. This strip b is subsequently drawn through suitable dies, of usual construction, to bend it as described, is readily distinguishable from acnt strip, becauseof thefinned or square edges of the latter.

I claim- That improvement in the manufacture of bound patterns for boots and shoes which consists in rolling or flattening a steel wire to form a thin strip, then bending the wire longitudinally into gutter or U shape, and bending about and compressing it on the material forming the pattern, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. B. \VHITE.

Witnesses:

J 0s. P. LIVERMORE, W. H. SIGSTON. 

